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Centzon Totochtin
Jan 2, 2009
I got a fitbit a few weeks ago and I don't wear it to sleep on nights where I work the next day because I don't want my watch to be disappointed in me for only sleeping 3-4 hrs.

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Bible Ian Black
Jul 16, 2009

I'M THE GUY
WHO SUCKS

PLUS I GOT
DEPRESSION
My friend's dad who is diabetic, obese, inactive and generally not fit got a fitbit and it hasn't helped motivate him at all and he might die soon actually.
Rated 5, this is a good thread and I hope you play ONE NIGHT for it because of good scares.

Eediot Jedi
Dec 25, 2007

This is where I begin to speculate what being a
man of my word costs me

To be honest I would like to see Chris play a genuinely stressful game. Make him play spelunky.

Or get Anthony back and make him play Golden Compass again. I reckon he was at least 120bpm by the time you took the controller off him.

Detective Thompson
Nov 9, 2007

Sammy Davis Jr. Jr. is also in repose.
Chris sure got steamed at the sight of Link. Really came on quickly, too, like he was alright for a bit until he realized what he was saying about nerds goofing up Link and it really got his goose.

judge reinhold
Jul 26, 2001


The Men Drinkin' Coffee become the Men Bustin' Myths in the latest installment. Just kidding, the game's title has no bearing on the plot. Just kidding, there is no plot.

CheeseThief
Dec 28, 2012

Two wholesome boys to brighten your day

I think you're going to have to turn in your labcoat and test tubes for that one, Judge.

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

WE ARE SMART
Things that we've learned make Diaper Chris nervous:

1. Doing baselines
2. Loading screens
3. Watching someone else play a video game

coleman francis
Aug 8, 2007

Tap tap
The ketchup bottle
None will come
Then axolotl
Hair Elf

CheeseThief posted:

I think you're going to have to turn in your labcoat and test tubes for that one, Judge.

Yeah, taking the controls totally taints the results

judge reinhold
Jul 26, 2001

Pakled posted:

Things that we've learned make Diaper Chris nervous:

1. Doing baselines
2. Loading screens
3. Watching someone else play a video game

This confirms all the things I both knew and Chris has explicitly stated to me.

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
I'm not sure there are enough elements there to qualify it as a game.

muike
Mar 16, 2011

ガチムチ セブン

CheeseThief posted:

I think you're going to have to turn in your labcoat and test tubes for that one, Judge.

as a sc intist, i t is known that you sometimes have to make sure you get ther esults you want. just like you somtimes have to use a public libarary becase your wife has filed a restraining order agsint you so you cant perfomr experiments in the comfort of your own home or use your own water cooled gascicence rig. science rig. not gaming rig. backpace dosnt work ont his keyboard and it keeps autocorrecting to pornographic sites

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer
I decided to look for Israeli urban legends, since I knew of none. The only one I found was pretty lame, and is supposed to be more funny than scary. Oh well, I guess we're still behind when it comes to these things.

Starving Wolf
Apr 2, 2010

MUCH LATER
Yams Fan

Zanzibar Ham posted:

I decided to look for Israeli urban legends, since I knew of none. The only one I found was pretty lame, and is supposed to be more funny than scary. Oh well, I guess we're still behind when it comes to these things.

Why would we even need to make up scary stories when we already live in hell?

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer

Starving Wolf posted:

Why would we even need to make up scary stories when we already live in hell?

Israelis don't live in hell, they(e: I wish, actually we) make life hell in the OT.

Redundant
Sep 24, 2011

Even robots have feelings!
I think we all know what happened here, Judge realised he had to crawl back through the air vent and his crippling fear of tight spaces set in. At least I assume that's what the weird contextual direction thing was getting at.

Shoombo
Jan 1, 2013
I think that contextual direction thing points in the direction of lights, because every time it showed up and they pressed a button, a light would turn on or off.

Centzon Totochtin
Jan 2, 2009
I'll be honest, when it said "face the madman" on the notepad, I thought you were supposed to find a mirror because YOU are the real madman! Also because there are a few urban legends involving mirrors (bloody Mary, Candyman, etc).

bhlaab
Feb 21, 2005

"Trust me, I'm a guy who knows what a bottle sounds like when it falls over"

Sad windows into the lifestyle of a coffee man

Melaneus
Aug 24, 2007

Here to make your dreams and nightmares come true.

judge reinhold posted:



The Men Drinkin' Coffee become the Men Bustin' Myths in the latest installment. Just kidding, the game's title has no bearing on the plot. Just kidding, there is no plot.


FWD: FWD: FWD: THE RUNAWAY POWER OF TECHNOLOGY GONE MAD, WE MAY NOW SEE THE HUBRIS OF MAN TRULY FALL!!!

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THE MIRCOSCOPIC CREATURE KNOWN AS THE WATER BEAR. KNOWN TO WITHSTAND THE MOST EXTREME TEMPERATURES, AND LIVE IN THE DEEPEST OCEAN TRENCHES AND EVEN THE ...
VACCUM OF SPACE!!!!

RUSSIAN SCIENTIST WERE EXPERIMENTING WITH NANOMACHINES! AND SOME ACCIDENTALLY CAME INTO CONTACT WITH WATER BEARS. NOW OUR WORST OF FEARS IS REALIZED!!!! WHEN IT COMES IN CONTACT WITH THE RIGHT TYPE OF NUTRIENTS, THE NANOMACHINE-WATER BEAR HYBRIDS GROW IN SIZE IN THE FLASH OF AN EYE AND ARE

IMPOSSIBLE TO KILL!!!!



IMAGINE SITTING DOWN WITH YOUR MORNING COFFEE WHEN SUDDENLY...






IT WILL HAPPEN. THEN IT WILL EAT YOUR FACE AND THEN RUN FOR PRESIDENT!!

AND WIN!!!!!!
WHAT A COUNTRY!

FORWARD THIS TO AT LEAST TWENTY PEOPLE OR YOU MAY BE THE NEXT VICTIM OF MACHINE BEAR! 76% OF PEOPLE ARE TO UNPATRIOTIC TO DO IT! GOD BLESS!

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Looking at the banner I was expecting Turban Legends.

Vote Machine Bear.

kjetting
Jan 18, 2004

Hammer Time

goatface posted:

I'm not sure there are enough elements there to qualify it as a game.

It's a metagame. It'll drive you mad trying to find out what you're supposed to do (and what the Machine Bear symbolizes). The player is the madman.

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer

kjetting posted:

It's a metagame. It'll drive you mad trying to find out what you're supposed to do (and what the Machine Bear symbolizes). The player is the madman.

To be fair, some sort of abnormality must have lead them to buy this game in the first place.

SuperGraffiti
Jan 2, 2008

I AM ONLY A MARE.
Was the person in the ambulance supposed to be the madman? As the only other person in the game?? I suppose if they were mad enough to drive right through the wall of an abandoned hell hospital then maybe but could you even get back to them after going through the vent?? My BPM is going through the roof as I try to guess this one out

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer

Zanzibar Ham posted:

To be fair, some sort of abnormality must have lead them to buy this game in the first place.

Actually, it would be awesome if you played Illbleed with the fitbit. It'd be very meta.

judge reinhold
Jul 26, 2001

Zanzibar Ham posted:

I decided to look for Israeli urban legends, since I knew of none. The only one I found was pretty lame, and is supposed to be more funny than scary. Oh well, I guess we're still behind when it comes to these things.

Well, the ancient Israelites were one of the oldest civilizations that wrote things down, so what about "the golem"? I think that technically counts.

SuperGraffiti posted:

Was the person in the ambulance supposed to be the madman? As the only other person in the game?? I suppose if they were mad enough to drive right through the wall of an abandoned hell hospital then maybe but could you even get back to them after going through the vent?? My BPM is going through the roof as I try to guess this one out

He does leave his ambulance and he chases you around in a later section and kills you a lot. Then he chases you in another section and kills you a lot there too. The game ends with him killing you in the elevator, which is the obvious conclusion since killing you was something he has never done before.

Also, I think we're missing the big picture here: the "Pina Colada Song" is about two married alcoholics trying to cheat on one another. The classified ad mentions the drinks the person likes on two distinct instances (and of course they want to meet at a bar for their adultery), has an out of nowhere aggressive tone with "if you have half a brain",

judge reinhold fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Oct 9, 2015

PrinceRandom
Feb 26, 2013

You stopped posting thread links in the videos judge...

I think

Jobbo_Fett
Mar 7, 2014

Slava Ukrayini

Clapping Larry

I kept waiting for the music to start

"gently caress it. I lied. It's drum and bass. Whatchougonnado?"

judge reinhold
Jul 26, 2001


I'll be honest: this game forgot to be scary or do anything interesting at all. Here's a second video to make up for it.



The devils learn to share and the Men Drinkin' Coffee get silly.

Mr. Highway
Feb 25, 2007

I'm a very lonely man, doing what I can.
Despair achieved the greatest horror: Accurately replicating my life through an empty subway metaphor (i.e. my life is an empty subway). Sometimes its a Subway restaurant. So many sandwiches, unfulfilled.

Bemis
Jan 5, 2010
I caught the FF7 reference. Very nice, Judge. I hope the remake captures the pathos of that scene.

Baron La Croix
Nov 2, 2010

rastah farah
sonnah maddah fah
That Rolling Stone cover is the most American thing I've ever seen.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Despair somehow doesn't capture the mood of the Moscow underground even though it's set there. Not enough marble and statues.

And the silly mode made the heart rate drop like a rock. It probably has applications in medicine.

SelenicMartian fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Oct 12, 2015

judge reinhold
Jul 26, 2001

Bemis posted:

I caught the FF7 reference. Very nice, Judge. I hope the remake captures the pathos of that scene.

I don't remember what this was, FF7 is just part of my daily lexicon. It always seems materia to the topic at hand.

SelenicMartian posted:

And the silly mode made the heart rate drop like a rock. It probably has applications in medicine.

I think his heart rate dropping means he's pleased.

BTW to the person who is mad about the unscientific nature of this: sorry.

CheeseThief
Dec 28, 2012

Two wholesome boys to brighten your day

During baselines Diaper's bpm skyrocketed to 93 at the sight of disguised Beavis. Some how while acknowledging that they haven't been actually watching the numbers Diaper and Tom managed to both come up with eerily appropriate commentary.

Centzon Totochtin
Jan 2, 2009
To be fair to Diaper Chris, the bacteria responsible for Legionnaire's disease often remains dormant in air conditioning and heating vents in between seasons, so he wasn't entirely off base on his "cold or disease" fear.

Detective Thompson
Nov 9, 2007

Sammy Davis Jr. Jr. is also in repose.
Well, that first game sure was... e-vent-ful!


Can I get a Fitbit reading on that pun?

judge reinhold
Jul 26, 2001

Detective Thompson posted:

Well, that first game sure was... e-vent-ful!


Can I get a Fitbit reading on that pun?

It stayed the same for about 8 seconds after it was read outloud, then it went up by 2 beats every second for 5 seconds, then dropped by 10 back to where it started.

Toma
Jul 18, 2011

Behold my elaborately animated eyes.
How do you decide which games to play? You aren't just picking random games with indie and horror tags on Steam or something, are you?

Moscow Mule
Dec 21, 2004

Nothing beats the taste sensation when maple syrup collides with ham.
I have no doubt that judge reinhold is personally curating every bone-chilling selection.

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Wanamingo
Feb 22, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

Toma posted:

How do you decide which games to play? You aren't just picking random games with indie and horror tags on Steam or something, are you?

I'm almost certain that they're looking at all the games Steam has on sale every monday, and then sorting by cheapest.

I know this because I've done the same.

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